LifeWiki is a
wiki
A wiki ( ) is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages that can either be edited by the public or l ...
dedicated to
Conway's Game of Life
The Game of Life, also known as Conway's Game of Life or simply Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial ...
. It hosts over 2000 articles on the subject and a large collection of Life patterns stored in a format based on
run-length encoding
Run-length encoding (RLE) is a form of lossless data compression in which ''runs'' of data (consecutive occurrences of the same data value) are stored as a single occurrence of that data value and a count of its consecutive occurrences, rather th ...
that it uses to interoperate with other Life software such as
Golly.
LifeWiki was founded in 2009 by Nathaniel Johnston, a professor of mathematics and computer science at
Mount Allison University
Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a Canadian primarily undergraduate liberal arts university located in Sackville, New Brunswick, founded in 1839.
Mount Allison was the first university in the British Empire to award a baccal ...
, as part of the ConwayLife site founded in 2008 by Johnston.
[ It serves as a focal point for one of the many mathematical communities ]John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician. He was active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to many b ...
's work brought into being, a starting point for Life enthusiasts to learn about new developments in Life patterns, and a comprehensive listing of the many forms of emergent behavior
In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole.
Emergence plays a central role ...
that Life patterns are now known to have.
References
External links
LifeWiki main page
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